North Carolina Confronts Climate Kooks

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North Carolina Confronts Climate Kooks

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Facing a well orchestrated onslaught of new social engineering regulations and forced cultural changes, over 600 North Carolinian scientists, Doctors, and Phd's have signed the petition challenging the IPCC's "findings" and "conclusions" about "climate change", and most specifically, anthopogenic global warming. A discussion of the science cited by the Science and Public Policy Institute, as well as the names of the 600+ signers can be found here:

(Note: These links are pretty heavy reading, but if you live in a state that hasn't already been overrun by the Climate Kooks, these documents are a "must read". The following articles chronicle the Goristas/Tree Huggers "playbook", with a purpose of removing rights, increasing taxes, and expanding government's control over every American's daily life choices.)

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/image ... rolina.pdf

...and what the scientists are trying to stop...

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusiv ... ml?id=4911
At the present time the North Carolina Legislative Commission on Climate Change — co-chaired by Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, and John Garrou, lawyer, environmental activist, and husband of Sen. Linda Garrou, D-Forsyth — is considering a set of policy proposals that, if enacted, would dramatically reduce our freedoms and impact our prosperity. The alleged goal of these proposals is to change the climate a hundred or so years from now. The actual effect is to micromanage our lives today. If enacted, these mandates would, through regulations and taxes, attempt to tell the citizens of North Carolina:

• How we can travel and commute,
• Where we can live,
• The size homes we can live in,
• The amount of land we can live on,
• The size cars we can drive,
• How we can generate electricity,
• How much energy we can use,
• The kinds of appliances we can have in our homes,
• How we can light, heat, and cool our homes, and even
• How we can purchase automobile insurance.

And there is no evidence that these restrictions on our freedom, even if enacted by every country on the planet, will have any noticeable impact on the climate — not in 100 years, not in 200 years.

Let me point out that this list represents only a fraction of the 56 proposals that, if enacted, begin the process of remaking the lifestyles of North Carolinians in the image of environmental ideologues and extremists. As Al Gore has pointed out, the fight against global warming will require “a wrenching transformation of American society,” and as Barack Obama has warned (threatened?): "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on … 72 degrees at all times...."

This power grab is happening in the name of reducing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and fighting global warming — a warming that, according to all temperature records, stopped about 10 years ago. That’s right, there’s been no net warming this decade. And for the last 60 years warming has occurred for less than a 25-year period from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. The real “deniers” in this debate are those who ignore these facts.
The 56 proposals summary intro...

http://www.johnlocke.org/policy_reports ... tml?id=147

...and the details with analysis of impact...

http://johnlocke.org/site-docs/research ... _final.pdf

Sorry, Carolinians, but now you get to experience the "Uber Alles" California Crazies.
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Re: North Carolina Confronts Climate Kooks

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Hopefully not.......if the western part of the state could ever get it's act together and outvote those GD pig and tobacco farmers from down east.......unbelievable.....this state loves national rebublicans, but, in my lifetime has only had one reublican governor and know republican majority legislature....is it any wonder that this state has a higher tax and fee burden than Massachussets?
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